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Deanna “Violet” Coco this month was sentenced to fifteen months’ jail, with a non-parole period of eight months, for the “crime” of blocking one lane of traffic on a Sydney bridge for 25 minutes as part of a climate change protest. She has since been released on bail pending an appeal, but a dozen (...)
Eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, the realities and aims of his brutal war of aggression are evident for all to see: Tens of thousands of civilian deaths, mass graves, widespread torture and rape, the forced transfer of children to Russia and (...)
Australian governments and their counterparts around the world have largely succeeded in desensitising us to avoidable mass deaths and disease. In the week to 6 July, 294 people died of COVID-19 in Australia, more than 40 a day.
In May, OzSAGE, an organisation of health-related experts, (...)
The chants rang out through cities and towns around the world as protesters defiantly challenged the US Supreme Court’s 1 July decision to end national access to abortion: “We won’t go back!” and “Our bodies! Our lives! Our right to decide!”
The decision has encouraged bigots everywhere, including (...)
Hal Greenland asseses the dramatic shift to the centre left in Australia after the weekend federal elections.
On Saturday, the Australian federal elections resulted in a dramatic shift to the centre-left in a poll that saw the emergence of a batch of insurgent feminist politicians. The (...)
After nine years of ruling for the rich, the Coalition government’s primary vote dropped by more than 6 percent and it lost a slew of seats—and government—in yesterday’s federal election. This was a public judgement of its agenda of tax cuts for the well-off, wage cuts for workers, inaction on (...)
Stereotypes and political rhetoric about poverty ignore the fact that welfare payments in Australia are obscenely low
As we barrel towards what’s sure to be an unedifying federal election campaign with more of us long-term unemployed and facing entrenched poverty than ever before, poor people (...)
None of the parties involved in the Djokovic visa affair comes out of it very well, writes Dave Kellaway.
At the time of writing it is still unclear whether Novak Djokovic will be able to defend his title in the Australian grand slam tennis event.
Djokovic himself has always been very cagey (...)
Much has been said about the rampant exploitation of migrant workers in Australia but the Migrant Workers Centre has data showing it is even worse.
The Melbourne-based non-profit organisation that advocates for migrant workers’ rights surveyed more than 700 migrant workers across many (...)
The great achievement of Australia’s ruling class in the second year of the pandemic was its relentless and ultimately successful campaign to destroy COVID Zero. We’re now starting to get an idea of what our brutal new reality of “living with COVID” actually looks like.
“What I witnessed (...)
As cryptocurrencies become mainstream and frictionless, extremists are finding new ways to fundraise
There have never been more ways to ask for money on the internet. For rightwing extremists looking to monetise hate, that can be a big opportunity – and the earning potential of these digital (...)
Sovereign wealth fund’s holdings include 14 companies that have done business with military which has killed more than 1,200 since coup
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the (...)
A set of “fake unions” with links to current and former Liberal and National party figures are capitalising on anti-vaccination fears to recruit doctors, teachers and nurses and exploit dissent within the labour movement about mandatory vaccinations.
Queensland-based Red Union claims nurses (...)
CFMEU officials attempt to guard the union’s office during an attack by anti-vax protesters (including many CFMEU members) on Monday 20 September
In a frightening show of force, marauding fascist mobs have taken over the streets of Melbourne for three days running. They have smashed up union (...)
p>NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told this morning’s press conference, “What we don’t want is another lockdown”. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the same thing. But the Liberals are responsible for half the country now going into one.
Berejiklian’s instinct to put business interests above public (...)
There are now more than 150 exposure venues and 65 locally acquired COVID-19 cases in NSW. And someone has returned on a plane to Melbourne and infected at least one more person with it. Yet still the NSW government refuses to lock down all of Sydney.
As details of the new breakout became (...)
• With Beijing and Canberra engaged in a flurry of inquiries, bans, scrutiny of deals and detentions, questions of when ties will hit rock bottom loom large
• A Chinese tabloid resurrected late Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew’s warning that Australia risked becoming ‘the poor white trash of (...)
The coronavirus pandemic has preyed on weaknesses created by decades of austerity, confirming what socialists have consistently argued: privatization was a disaster.
The link between privatization and the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia’s southeastern state of Victoria is now (...)
Why is the outbreak in Victoria striking the public housing towers, the meatworks, the aged care centres, and the poorest suburbs? Because the disease thrives wherever inequality is high and workers’ rights are restricted.
The year of COVID-19 has been full of surprises, but some things remain (...)
Dunedin Smoke NZ’s South Island with and without bushfire smoke (pic from Alpine Guides).
New Years’ Day 2020, Ōtepoti/Dunedin (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Ironically, my first real-life encounter with the Australian bushfires – not mediated by Facebook, Twitter, or a press article – is the smoke that (...)
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